♪ ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... woman: architect. bee keeper. mentor. a raymond james financial advisor tailors advice to help you live your life. life well planned. george: actually, you don't need vision to do most things in life. it's exciting to be part of a team driving the technology forward. i think that's the most rewarding thing. people who know, know bdo.

narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. announcer: and now, "bbc news". >> i am karlan's menn washington. this is "bbc world news america." the u.s. supreme court has rejected a plan to forgive student loans. it is one of two rulings that will have a major impact on american life. scenes of chaos in france following the police killing of a teenager at a traffic stop. the nation braces for another night of violence. plus, why researchers have seen a spike in diabetes among

children. ♪ >> welcome to "world news america." the u.s. supreme court wrapped up its term earlier on friday with two major rulings. the first found in favor of a christian website designer who refused to provide wedding services to same-sex couples. . the second ruling rejected president biden's plan to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans. . the ruling affects tens of millions of americans who would have seen up to $20,000 wiped off their debt. mr. biden has condemned the ruling. he says the court misinterpreted the constitution. here is more of what he had to say. pres. biden: i believe the court's decision to strike down my program was a mistake, it was wrong. i'm not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic

scale. we need to find a new way, and remove it as fast as we can. first, i'm announcing today a new path consistent with today's ruling to provide student debt relief to as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible. >> let's get more from our correspondent. she has been covering the supreme court for us all week. another momentous day, big decisions handed down by the supreme court. walk us these two rulings and how they are being received. reporter: number one was this ruling in favor of women in colorado, a website designer, who did not want to have to provide website services, wedding services to same-sex couples. but she was worried because of this, she would be called of the state's anti-discrimination law. she says this runs against her beliefs. she essentially sought and has

won an exemption. highly significant ruling. then ruling number two that came down was the supreme court effectively torpedoing joe biden's mammoth student debt relief program that could have provided relief to potentially more than 40 million americans. some republicans have reacted and they are pretty pleased. one said it was the end of what he described as a socialism plan. others are distressed and outraged. i have been speaking to students outside the supreme court. >> this position will impact a lot of people in this country. it will disproportionately impact people who already are historically are journalized. the people who take out student loans are not the children of millionaires and billionaires. >> i come from a low income background. my family does not have generational wealth. i had no other option to take out student loans to pay my rent and put food on the table. >> we heard the passion from those students.

this forgiveness plan, this was a signature plan for president biden. he said he will continue to fight for some sort of debt relief. does he have a plan b? reporter: he has been trying to outline a plan b. i think it is worth remembering that it was in his 2020 election campaign where he talked about tackling the student debt burden. that was a way of energizing young voters, voters he will want to try to energize again in 2024. he will want to be seen as doing something, despite this major political blow. he has outlined what he called a new path. but loans could be waived or released in certain circumstances. we have not had a lot of detail. he has conceded that this will take longer than what was plan a. a major political blow for joe biden. he seems pretty upset when he was giving his statement, even saying the court had misinterpreted the constitution with the ruling it made. >> in terms of this second

ruling involving lgbtq rights, what kind of precedents could this set in other states other than colorado? reporter: this is a case that essentially pitted free speech rights against antidiscrimination laws. in this case, free speech rights have won out. colorado said it's antidiscrimination rules were not ruling against free speech, but actually sales the concern now is other states, around 29, have similar antidiscrimination laws. there are warnings that could businesses there now refuse their services may be on the basis of somebody's sexuality or some people are saying, their bend colorado. >> a big week at the supreme court. just proper has been covering it all for us. thank you so much for your work. for more on these rulings, i'm joined by bobby scott, a

democratic congressman from virginia and the ranking member of the house committee on education and the workforce. the joining is taking the time. given this decision by the supreme court's on the presidents loan forgiveness program, what would you say to students that might be worrying about how they can afford to pay for university? rep. scott: i think it is instructive to see how we got here. states used to pay two thirds of the cost of a state college. now it is less than one third. the pell grant, money available to low income students to help pay for college, used to cover about 80% of the costs of going to state college. now it is less than 30%. all of that extra money, that gap has been covered over the years by student loans. when you have older people saying they worked their way through college, they had a pell grant that covered 80% of the

cost, they only had to cover 20%. now students have to pay almost the whole thing. that is how we got here. students have incurred massive debt. the forgiveness program was just a modest relief for what has become overbearing debt. it turns out that about half the people with the debt would have been totally wiped out with that little relief. >> we heard the president earlier and democrats have been saying they want to continue to fight for debt relief. do you see any action taking place this year by congress? rep. scott: the republicans are in control of the house. they have shown no interest in helping people pay for college education. just absolutely none. they view college as a privilege. i think democrats view it as

something that ought to be available to everybody. it is the best strategy for uplifting yourself from poverty into the middle class. that ought to be available -- >> iere yt thacadone to help th? rep. scott: the president is going to continue with the debt relief. we also need to significantly increase the pell grant's so that you have to take out much less of a loan. we want to reduce the interest on student spaymts go directly to principal, and not so much to interest. and some of the forgiveness programs the president has prescribed the income base where you pay a percentage of your income for so many years. after those years, you are discharged. he wants to make that more generous and affordable. we are still working, we have not given up. we will try to do the student loan forgiveness program with another statute, so that perhaps

we can still get that done. we have not given obama. we need to make sure colleges affordable, and there are a number of things we are working on now. we have to acknowledge the republicans in congress have shown -- >> just to happen here, i want to make sure we get to the other major ruling this week about affirmative action. i want to get your thoughts on this. there are many republicans who see this as an issue of fairness. that if you are qualified, you should to a university, regardless of your background or your race. what is your response to that argument? rep. scott: that is an interesting thing you say, qualified. the factors involved in admissions today, many of them have racially discriminatory disparate impact. for example, we have shown some of these standardized tests are racially discriminatory. they give the test, they don't

say those who are discriminated against by the test are disadvantaged. they don't say that legacy, an idea that if your parents or grandparents went to college when it was much more -- much less diverse, that that gives an advantage to whites, they don't argue about that. there are a number of other factors involved in how someone gets qualified. if you want to make it fair, you ought to make it fair. you can't have discrimination on tests, on legacy, discrimination -- we still have schools that are segregated racially now as they were in the 1960's. minority students tend to go to schools that are underfinanced. how can it be fair that you go to a school like that and then get judged like somebody who went to a better school? you don't have ap courses.

berkeley at one time, half the black students in california could not qualify because they did not go to a school with ap courses that could get your grade point average above 4.0. >> while we have a little bit of time, many democrats have been criticizing the supreme court for being too conservative, out of touch with americans. there is a group of senates and house democrats that have reintroduced a bill that would add four seats to the supreme court. president biden does not seem to support this. is this something you would support? rep. scott: i think we have to go through the normal process and elect presidents who can make the appointments. the problem with adding people, adding four justices to the supreme court, is if the next president is elected, he will add five justices of the supreme court and it will just keep growing and growing depending on how many you need to get a majority. we lost the election in 2016.

we have been paying for that ever since. we need the court to actually rule consistent with precedents. you had the dobbs decision on abortion, affirmative action, they have overturned 40 or 50 years of precedents. on the discrimination case. years of precedent. but i think we need to go to the polls and make sure we have a legislature that will make things fair. >> we will have to leave it there. bobby scott, democratic congressman from virginia, and ranking number of the house committee on education and workforce. thank you for your time. rep. scott: thank you. >> turning to france where the mood is tense heading into the weekend as the nation grapples with the fallout of a police killing of a teenage boy. 45,000 police have now been deployed to maintain order. bus and tram services have been halted.

president macron has condemned the violence. we have learned a young man has died after falling from a roof during those protests. lucy williamson has more. reporter: each night in cities across france, the battle is growing. many of those behind the fireworks, behind the masks, are reported to be teenagers between 14 and 18 years old. the targets across france last night included a new olympic swimming pool, and a construction in the paris suburbs. and a call center up in flames. central paris was touched for the first time too, with the looting of luxury shops in the louvre museum. looting and the heart of paris has only increased the pressure on president macron, and after forces return to a summit in brussels today as the violence here as -- has escalated over the past few days, so has the

security response a they need to contain the unrest balanced against the risk of inflaming it. questions growing over whether france will impose a state of emergency, president emmanuel macron appealed to the parents of the rioters. >> one third of all people arrested last night where young. sometimes very young people. it is the responsibility of parents to keep them at home. i call on mothers and fathers and their sense of responsibility. the state cannot replace them. >> in suburbs here outside paris, the anger directed at police ricochets onto neighbors and friends. he is a chauffeur here. one of the cars burned last night was his. >> i feel very angry for the people. yes, they burned the car. the people do not listen. reporter: the u.n. today said this was a moment for france to

address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in its policing. hassan has been a community worker for 40 years. he says containing the anger is getting harder. >> we have had the explosion of social networks with all that entails. i think young people have fewer points of reference and fewer values than they did 20 years ago. they are harder to control. reporter: the government may not have declared a state of emergency. but the sense of emergency is hard to miss. lucy williamson, beast -- bbc news, paris. >> our correspondent is in paris for us. she has the latest. we just saw those dramatic images, that chaos in many french cities. can you describe what you are seeing where you are? >> we are in the suburb here, and that is where 17-year-old nahal lived.

it is in the suburb that he died after he was killed by a police officer earlier this week. as you can see, it is quiet here. through the course of the evening, we have seen cars racing past us. on some occasions, groups of people, it is early in the night here. yesterday when we were on the streets, it was the same feeling and the same mood. then around 2:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m., when we were back in our hotel across the road from here, we started hearing the noise. there were crowds of people pouring through the street. the restaurant next door to where we are staying was completely smashed up. we just heard the sound of fireworks, they have been banned tonight. lots of violence, things set on fire, looting, lots of shots, not just here in the suburb, but across paris and other parts of the country. people are bracing themselves for another night of violence. huge police presence across the

country. some 45,000 officers deployed to try to contain any of the problems. and french authorities also say they are deploying armed police vehicles this evening. we don't know what impact that will have and how many people will take to the streets later. >> how much support is therefore these protests among the french people overall? >> that is very difficult. i have not really seen any polling to that effect. but certainly, there are a lot of people who agree with the sentiment behind these protests. this began after the police killing of a 17-year-old boy who lived in this neighborhood. he was from the arab community. this is very diverse background. many people we have spoken to in this neighborhood feel that the police are there to protect them, and simply have not been

doing that. the example of nahel is just one of many. there are people we have spoken to who believe this violence is justified. one man we spoke to today said this had to happen for people to actually take notice of the deeper problems. there are other people we have spoken to today who have been sweeping up the glass that has been left from shattered windows that have been smashed, they have trying to put together their restaurant chairs or tables that have been overturned, saying the violence is not the right way forward. the national polls, these protests have spread now across paris and across the country. the people who feel angry enough to resort to violence do feel more action may come. >> our correspondent there for us outside of paris. thank you so much for your reporting. a look at some other stories making headlines. the prosecution has opened its

case in the trial of kevin spacey. the hollywood actor is accused of sexual offenses against four men between the years 2001 and 2013. the 63-year-old denies all 12 charges against him, including sexual assault and indecent assault. more than 170 million people across the u.s. are under air quality and heat alerts as wildfire smoke and high temperatures sweep across the country. health officials have called air qualities in parts of the midwest and mid-atlantic unhealthy. in the west, cities including las vegas and phoenix are bracing for temperatures up to 43 degrees celsius, that is about 110 degrees fahrenheit. the interior ministry in moldova has confirmed to the bbc that two people have been killed at an international airport from a man who seized a gun from border guards as he was being escorted to the deportation zone. this shooter has been captured. early reports said he took

hostages and hold himself up in a room. the shooter has been taken into custody. former brazilian president jair bolsonaro has been banned from running for public office until the year 2030. the serb electoral court found mr. bolsonaro killed -- lt of abuse of power. he claimed the electronic ballots used in the country were vulnerable to hacking and fraud. >> the case against bolsonaro was brought to the court by one of the rival parties. it was built around a meeting he held with foreign -- letters last july before the elections. in an event broadcasting on state television, he cast doubt on the brazil's electronic voting system without showing evidence. five of the seven judges rejected the defense arguments that bolsonaro was exercising his free-speech, and held the meeting in an effort to discuss what -- with diplomats how to

improve the system. 's conviction means he is banned from running for office for eight years. that he says he will appeal. the big question is, what happens next? pundits say even if he is enabled to run, he could still be a key political figure. whoever he endorses will have a big leg up in the race. and to the surprise of many, he recently said in an interview that if his wife, former first lady, wanted, she could run for office. in the past, whenever prompted with a question like that, bolsonaro always said he thought she should not run because she did not have enough experience. that might have changed. we will have to wait and see. >> type one diabetes is on the rise among children, especially since the covid pandemic. that is the findings from new research published. here's our medical editor. >> theo, who is nine, was diagnosed with type one diabetes last year. just a few months after he

caught covid. he is part of a huge spike in cases of type one, an autoimmune disease where the body can no longer produce enoughlo sugar le controlled. >> i was in shock. i was in denial a lot. i thought it was a misdiagnosis because we are very lucky that we caught it early. a lot of families i have seen since, they found out when the child was in intensive care. >> this analysis looked more than 38,000 new cases of type one diabetes in children and teenagers in many parts of the world, including europe and north america. before the pandemic, the incidence of type one diabetes was already rising by 3% a year. in the first 12 months of the pandemic, there was a 14% rise in rates of type one. in the second year, it was up by 27%. the big question is why? could it be a link to covid infection? the study looked at this but

could not find a convincing connection between the two. a lack of exposure to common microbes during the pandemic is another theory, as these may be protected against autoimmune diseases. charities want people to be aware of what they call the four t's, morning cysts -- symptoms. they are toilet, peeing more often. being constantly thirsty or incredibly tired with no energy. and getting thinner, losing weight, without trying to. left undiagnosed, it can be a medical emergency. >> we need a lot more research to really understand why the immune system malfunctions in the first place, so that insulin is not produced. we need to understand what the impact has been of the pandemic, and of covid, on the bodies and lives of children and young people. >> theo has an insulin pump and

is managing his diabetes well. charities say research into new treatments is vital for what is a lifelong condition. >> hot off the press, one of the world's oldest newspapers is dropping its daily print edition after running for more than three centuries. when it launched in august, 1703, the vienna-based sent out to provide a sober account of the needs without any oratory or poetic loss. it is owned by the austrian government, but editorial independent. the final front page of the print edition read "320 years, 10 presidents, two republics, one newspaper." it will continue to operate online and plans a monthly print edition as well. oscar-winning actor alan arkin has died at the age of 89. the star won best supporting actor for his role in the film "little miss sunshine."

he won a tony award and golden globe and a bath to the course of his seven decade career. he started his acting career on broadway in the 1960's. he was nominated for oscars for his roles in arkin's fit -- and his family says he was a uniquely talented force of nature as a artist and a man. thank you for watching narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

narrator: you're watching pbs.

♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna nawaz is away. on "the newshour" tonight... the u.s. supreme court strikes down president biden's student debt relief program and sides with a web designer who refused service for same-sex couples. the united states failed to plan for worst-case scenarios before the fall of afghanistan. we look at that and other findings in a new state department report. and... republican presidential candidates appear at an education event run by a group with increasing ties to far-right extremists. ♪ >> major funding for "the pbs newshour" has been provided by